There’s a stretch of the Baltic Sea, called the Bay of Lübeck, where marine creatures are settling and making a home in undetonated Nazi bombs dating back to World War II.

During World War II, Germany and many other countries disposed of unused explosive munitions by just chucking them into the ocean. Nearly a century later, the result is an underwater minefield of 1.6 million tons of corroding death, just hanging out at the bottom of the sea off the German coast. You’d think marine life would steer clear of a toxic wasteland, but nope. Some species are making the best of a potentially explosive situation.

A recent study led by marine biologist Andrey Vedenin, published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, reveals that more animals are living on the dumped warheads than in the s

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